Polyphasic sleep, anyone?

I would also like to argue that basing your observations on completely unrelated sleep experiences is ridiculous. I run a controlled and carefully planned schedule. It is in no way the same as simply stopping with sleep.

ok when did i say i had to stop sleeping, other than my nco course, on ops we would sleep just short peiods of time

ok here is an example and i know im right here

take a very fit runner and get him to do what your doing, and then get him to run a race against some one of the same fittness that has rested over 8 hours

i bet that the rested person will not only win but will finish faster, why because his body has not fatigued to the point were he can nopt perform to his fullest.

if you can prove that the person on this sleep thing can do it then hats off to you untill then i hold my judment that is not good for your body or mind

If you had taken the time to read about this, as has been suggested before, you would know that this is not recommended for athletes or other people who exercise hard. That kind of physical activity strains your body up to the point where you need rest similarly to an ill person in order to rebuild muscles and so on.

But if we're talking about two regular people, I see no reason for there to be a difference. How do you propose I prove it to you? I'm not myself a physically fit person. And I never was, so no point in blaming it on my sleep.

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Subject: Re: Polyphasic sleep, anyone? Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:37 pm

what i had to do something every similar to what your doing and had to have the fittness level of athletes so your point there is non void

then get a mate who is about same fitness as you and go for a 1.5 mile run, they will finish faster and will recover faster than you

Ha! I don't know if I've ever been able to run for that long without feeling like I was dying.

But since you insist on claiming that what you did was the same, answer me this: Did you calculate your naps to fit to your core sleep? Did you take your naps at exactly the same time, and with healthy intervals throughout the day and every day, for at least three weeks? If not, what you experienced was the same thing that happens to all those people who lack the willpower to get through the apaption period, and judging if a technique is good or not based on data from those who failed to perform it... Well, that sounds silly to me.

Also tell me: Since we've already established that sleep deprivation over long periods of time will harm both your body and mental capabilities; how long do you judge that period of time to be? I would say that no sleep for more than a week will have a severe impact, but now it's been a month already. When do you suggest my body will have had enough and start to feel bad?

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Subject: Re: Polyphasic sleep, anyone? Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:49 pm

stag list

00.00 - 02.00 op02.00 - 04.00 rest04.00 - 06.00 op

i can go on, so yes i had my sleep told to me

as for the problems i can only go by what i have had happen to me, but for on you will look real rough, bags under eyes and the like..

but hay enjoy it if it works for you then go for it, but this has showen me how this rp group just dosnt listen to people who have had similar examples oh well

I do listen to you. But what you're describing sounds nothing like what I'm experiencing, thus my attempts to prove that it's different. Maybe you're jsut for some odd reason incapable of optimizing your sleep? I don't know.

As for looks.. I've gained some weight since starting this, since I added a meal to my day and wasn't smart enough to regulate sizes of meals to go with that.. I'm working on it.

I did in fact go check in a mirror, jsut to make sure I'm telling the truth. I'm currently somewhat rosy cheeked, though I'm naturally rather pale. I can see no dark rings or anything else that looks sickly.

And just to explain why I keep arguing: I feel fine. In fact, I feel better than I ever did. This may be the one best change I've ever done to my life. And you're telling me that I'm not. That I'm actually sleep deprived, suffering and in general hurting myself. This leads to one of two conclusions:

either 1) I'm lying to you. (Why would I do that? Some malicious scheme to make others try this and hurt themselves? World domination? Lulz? Really.. <.< )

or 2) I'm stupid and can't tell the difference between feeling good and feeling bad.

As stated early on in the thread, I have years of experience in sleeping badly, sleeping too little and in general suffering due to sleep. I know what that feels like. This is not it.

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Subject: Re: Polyphasic sleep, anyone? Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:58 pm

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As stated early on in the thread, I have years of experience in sleeping badly, sleeping too little and in general suffering due to sleep. I know what that feels like. This is not it.

I find it amusing that where I try to spend an entire post explaining my behaviour to avoid misunderstandings, you avoid it and instead make up what seems like an imaginary inslut. But Lion is right, just stop. I know what I'm experiencing and you have no interest in accepting it, we're getting nowhere.

I had to try out moving a nap tonight. Was having dinner with parents, cousins and cousins' parents, and the table was booked for five, so no way was I going to get a nap at six. So I took the nap at four, waking up in time to get to the restaurant. I fell asleep all right, perhaps it took a little while longer than normal, and I felt a little more sleepy when waking up. Around nine-ten in the evening, I did feel pretty tired, but it passed. Now, after the midnight nap, I feel back to normal again.

Conclusion: Everyman is indeed adaptive, and it is possible to make little exceptions like these when needed. Yet another thing making it easier to live with.

((Indeed, Feronius. Good thing I don't feel tired very often anymore! ))

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Subject: Re: Polyphasic sleep, anyone? Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:24 pm

Here's a little tiny bit of info that I remembered when "weight" was mentioned...

It is scientifically proven that women that sleep for over 8 hours a day are considerably slimmer and their metapolism works a lot faster than those that sleep less than 8 hours...

But hey, not going for or against, just figured you might like to know.

It's still irony. Y so srs btw? If I had dyslexia I would joke about it all the time. >_>

Anyway... has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

PS. I humbly apologize if my opinion (or something else) may have hurt someone, I love you all.

This post has been edited several times.

Editing the edited edit: I technically didn't say he couldn't spell, i.e. is illiterate, just that his fingers slip a lot or that his keyboard is brooooken. I slip all the time, but I go back and fix it. Maybe he doesn't, innit? :)

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Subject: Re: Polyphasic sleep, anyone? Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:13 pm

The way I understood the fact that I posted earlier... is that while asleep, your body burns more food or some-such... hence it prevents as much fat built up -and- it has possitive effects on your metabolism too.